You know the feeling
Leading data is a lonely job. Your peers run functions they understand. You are asked to prove value, fight for budget, and change how a company works, usually without a single person beside you who has done it. This is where you find the people who have.
For data leaders in the seat only. No consultants or vendors.
What's inside
No mystery box. The library, the rooms, and the directory below are the real thing. The only part I am holding back is who is in it, and that is deliberate.
The library
The first 90 days playbook, the data maturity self-assessment, session recordings, and the templates I use with clients. Everything in the list is in there now.
Videos, session recordings, guides, and templates. Curated training for data leaders.
Robert B. Cialdini
"The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—…"
Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
"When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or…"
Randy Bean
"Explore why ― now more than ever ― the world is in a race to become data-driven, and how you can learn from examples of data-driven leadership in an …"
The rooms
One feed, split into rooms. Real questions under real names, not a Slack channel where nobody posts first.
One shared feed for the whole community. Ask, answer, and share wins under your real name.
Rooms
Budget review is in three weeks. Tickets closed is not going to cut it this time. What actually moved the needle for you?
Every domain wants a say and nothing ships. Where did you draw the line between ownership and delivery?
Small win, but the team needed one. Sharing what worked in case it helps someone else get the first one out.
The directory
Search by where someone sits and what they have already solved, then message them directly. No intro request, no gatekeeper.
Browse the community and message a data leader to connect.
What this is
This is not a Slack group with a thousand strangers or a conference you attend once a year. Start in the community, free to join and open to every in-seat data leader. When you want more, request a seat in a cohort: a small, closed circle anchored by a facilitated monthly forum where the same people show up for each other.
Inside a cohort: the monthly forum
Modeled on the peer forum used by top CEO groups. Before each session, every member submits a short, structured check-in. In the session, the cohort reads each other's real state and works the hard problems together. No pitching, no performance, just the truth and the group.
Your highs and lows this month, professional and personal
What is top of mind heading into the session
One ask of the group, so you never leave empty-handed
The community
Free to joinJoining is free. The community is the open layer, where you meet other in-seat data leaders, connect with them directly, ask questions, and find what you need between sessions.
Search by where someone sits and what they have already solved, then message them one to one.
Rooms for governance, tooling, career, and the question you cannot ask internally. Post under your real name and get answers from people who have been there.
The first 90 days playbook, the data maturity self-assessment, and the rest of what I use with clients. New material added when the room asks for it.
Roles and fractional work, posted as they come in. Whether you are hiring, building a bench, or quietly looking at your next seat.
Your cohort
By request, limited seatsWhen the open community is not enough, step into a cohort: a small, closed circle of about ten data leaders that meets every month in a facilitated forum. This is the layer that takes real commitment, so seats are limited and I run every session personally.
The same small group of data leaders who show up for you every month. Closed, confidential, and the same faces over time.
A facilitated session built on a structured check-in, so the group works your real problems, not surface updates.
I lead every session myself. That is why cohorts stay small, and why the hour is worth showing up for.
Who belongs here
This room is for people who are currently leading a data or analytics function. Chief data officers, heads of data, VPs of analytics, the person who owns the mandate today. When everyone in the room carries the same weight, nobody is performing and the conversation gets real.
Currently own or lead a data or analytics function
On the hook for the strategy, the team, and the outcomes
Here as a peer, not to sell to one
One rule, and we mean it
No consultants, no vendors, no recruiters working the room. This is not a place to prospect data leaders. It is a place to be one.
If you are here to sell to the room instead of sit in it, we will give you the boot. No hard feelings. That boundary is the only reason the trust holds, so we protect it.
Who facilitates
I have spent my career as a data leader inside world-class organizations, and I know exactly how isolating the seat can be. You are expected to have the answers, drive the change, and carry the doubt, usually without a peer who has been there.
I facilitate these cohorts personally. That is why the group stays small. I want to know every member, run every session well, and make sure the hour you spend here is the most useful hour of your month.
If that is what you have been missing, come sit in the room.
Taylor Culver
Founder, XenoDATA™
A taste of the room
One Version of the Truth is our podcast with the CEOs, founders, and data leaders who have made the hard calls. The same honest conversations you will have inside, in public first.
Kyle Winterbottom, Orbition Group
Orbition Group's Kyle Winterbottom on why CDOs get hired to fail, the data accountability gap, and why commer…
Jack Phillips, International Institute for Analytics
IIA CEO Jack Phillips on why AI has widened the gap between data supply and business demand, and what separat…
Kai Thapa, SunnyData
SunnyData CEO Kai Thapa on scaling to 200 employees in under 3 years, and why people, not technology, make or…
Create your free account and you're in. It takes a couple of minutes, and only data leaders in the seat get through the door.
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